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Ketty Nyoni, nyonik@dailynews.co.zw NOTWITHSTANDING that over  180 000 Zimbabweans are expected to be deported back home from South Africa, the neighbouring country still remains the destination of choice for many who are leaving the country for various reasons, a report by the International Organisation for Migration (IOM) shows. The IOM’s Flow Monitoring report for January 2023,…

By Yvonne Ncube A NKAYI man from Silongwe village in Nkayi, Matabeleland North province, has appeared in court facing attempted murder charges after he allegedly struck his neighbour with an axe following a field dispute that originated 45 years ago in 1978. Isaac Ndiweni, 64, was not asked to plead before Bulawayo regional magistrate Collet…

ZIMBABWE plans to set up an offshore financial centre in the resort city of Victoria Falls that the government hopes will emulate the likes of Dubai and the Isle of Man to attract foreign investment. “The trigger is the success of the VFEX,” Finance minister Mthuli Ncube said in an interview, a reference to the…

By Yvonne Ndlovu YOUTH activists in Bulawayo have called on the government to set up affordable rehabilitation centres for drug and substance abuse patients to afford treatment and recovery. Speaking to the Daily News yesterday, Active Youth Zimbabwe (a drug and substance abuse advocacy organisation) director Romio Matshazi said it was unfortunate that their repeated…

By Almot Maqolorecently in BULAWAYO ZIMBABWE is implementing a safe city project that will be distinguished by the use of information communication technology (ICT), as the government ramps up its efforts to digitalise the economy. The safe city project is part of the government’s initiative to increase safety by controlling crime and monitoring traffic through…

ZIMBABWEAN care workers are being tricked into coming to the United Kingdom (UK) by unscrupulous middlemen who withhold up to half their wages and force them to live in squalor. The scam, which plays on the acute shortages of nursing and care staff across Britain’s hospitals and care homes, has echoes of the debt bondage…

THE World Health Organisation(WHO) has partnered with the government to devise strategies aimed at controlling cholera and typhoid outbreaks.  According to a report released by the WHO yesterday, the health ministry, with support from WHO, recently updated Zimbabwe’s cholera and typhoid control guidelines.  “Our objectives were to review, update and validate the draft cholera control…